NII is/will be digital superhighway provided to you by
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"Optical Fiber" : Phone and Cable Industry
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"Services": CNN, America On-line, Prodigy, Newspapers, Blockbuster and indeed YOU!!
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Current NII is InterNet and World Wide Web but IntraNets are rapidly becoming most important deployment
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Currently access NII through Internet directly or through an intermediary such as America On-line
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Currently consumers use a Computer and modem on POTS -- plain old telephone service
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In future Computers/TV set sets will "converge" and access will be dedicated cable/optical fiber which will be much faster and allow high quality video delivery (ISDN, ADLS or Cable Modem)
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"Every" Business Office, Every doctor's Office, "Every" school desk, "Every" home (approximately any home on cable) will have such a two-way high speed link to the NII
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